Barn-door shield or cover.



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DOOR SHIELD 0R COVER.

Patented Dec, 8, 1908.

ALBERT H. SITES, O F ASHLAND, OHIO.

BARN-noon SHIELD 0R COVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

Application filed January 14;, 1908. Serial No. 410,812.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT H. SITES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ashland, in the county of Ashland and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Barn- Door Shield or Cover, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in covers or shields forprotecting sliding barn doors.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofshields or covers for protecting sliding barn doors, and to provide asimple and comparatively inexpensive shield or cover of great strengthand durability, adapted to be readily applied to a sliding barn door, orsimilar closure, and capable of covering the open space between theupper edge of the door and the side of the barn and of protecting thetrack and the rollers or wheels from the weather.

A further obj eot of the invention is to provide a cover or shield ofthis character having supporting angles, adapted to form lap joints forenabling a shield or cover of any number of separate sections to beemployed.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in theconstruction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully explained,illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claimhereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form,proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope ofthe claim, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit orsacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shield or cover, andconstructed in accordance with this invention, and shown applied to aportion of a barn. Fig. 2 is an enlarged rear elevation of a portion ofa shield or cover. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view. Fig.4 is a detail horizontal sectional view, illustrating the constructionof the lap joint.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawing.

].1 designate similar constructions of a barn door shield or cover,constructed of galvanized sheet metal, or other suitable material andcomposed of an upper inner vertical portion or flange 2, a lower outervertical flange or portion 3, and an intermediate connecting portion 4,arranged at an inclination and extending downwardly and outwardly fromthe bottom of the upper vertical portion or flange 2.

The upper vertical portion or flange 2 is fitted against the wall 5 of abarn at a point above the sliding door 6, and the shield extends overthe track 7 and the door hangers 8 and protects the same from theweather. The lower edge of the lower vertical portion or flange 3 isfolded or bent upwardly against its inner face to provide a stiffenedlower edge 9.

The shield or cover is supported at intervals by hangers 10, consistingof metallic straps and composed of upper and lower vertical portions 11and 12 and intermediate connecting portions 13, arranged at aninclination to conform to the configuration of the intermediateconnecting portion 4 of the shield or cover. The hangers are arranged onand fit the exterior of the shield or cover, and they are provided attheir lower ends with inwardly and u wardly extending supporting hooks14, w ich receive the lower stiffened edge 9. V

The hangers are secured to the intermediate portion of the shield orcover by bolts or rivets 15, and they are mounted on the side or wall ofthe barn by screws or nails 16. The hanger occurring at the adjacentends of two sections is also secured to the lower vertical portion ofone of the sections by a bolt or rivet 17, and it rojects beyond suchsection and overlaps t e contiguous outer section, which fits within andis supported by the overlapping end or joint hanger. By thisconstruction the shield or cover may be made any desired length byincreasing the number of sections, and Weather tight joints are providedwithout overlapping the adjacent ends of the sections.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

An extensible barn door shield or cover including a plurality ofsections having abutting ends, a hanger overlapping the abutting ends ofthe said sections and arranged on the outside of the same and conformingto configuration thereof and constituting the sole supporting means forholding the sections in position, said hanger being provided at itslower end With an inwardly extending up- In testimony, that I claim theforegoing as turned support receiving the lower edges of my own, I havehereto aflixed my signature the said sections, and fastening means forin the presenceof two Witnesses.

securing the hanger to the end of one of the ALBERT H. SITES. 5 saidsections, the contiguous end of the 'Witnesses:

other section being detachably fitted in and JAY R. MARGUERAT,

. interlocked with the hanger. A. P. STALTER.

